Word: picketer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Researcher Finn knew about unionism and unions before she came to TIME, twelve years ago. She learned in labor's own school of hard knocks. She handed out leaflets at the gates of industrial plants and once got roughed up on a picket line. David Dubinsky hired her as an organizer for his A.F.L. garment workers, and Sidney Hillman hired her away to write for his C.I.O. clothing workers' Advance...
...Radcliffe affair involved Judith E. Cowen, G.Ed., who was assaulted by two hoodlums Friday with a picket fence as she emerged from an office in Peabody House...
Police said that a professor on the floor above heard the screams and drove off the hoodlums. The picket fence yielded no fingerprints when recovered by Cambridge officers...
Pete Seeger '40 has been associated for many years with left-wing causes and radical activities. Yet his appearance at New Lecture Hall last night occasioned neither demonstration nor heckling, despite the threats of the Conservative League to picket the performance. Seeger's appearance and the comments and questions it has aroused, nevertheless, call for a reaffirmation of the University's well-established and courageous policy in regard to the speakers permitted to appear before its undergraduate body...
...nation's hottest labor issue is not being fought on picket lines or in Washington. It is being fought in state legislatures over bills and laws to ban union-shop and maintenance-of-membership contracts. Such laws, generally called "right to work" laws by legislators and "right to scab" laws by union men, are now on the books of 18 states. Utah's was enacted this year; the other 17 are in the eleven Southern states, plus Arizona, Iowa, Nebraska, Nevada and the two Dakotas...